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In one of the more-dramatic turn of events in a fight, Antonio DeMarco stopped Jorge Linares in the 11th round to win the vacant WBC lightweight title. Linares dominated the first five rounds of the fight, utilizing his speed and accuracy. DeMarco (26-2-1, 19 KO’s) hung in there, rallying in the sixth round to open a cut on the bridge of the nose of Linares. A cut later opened over the right eye of Linares read more ...

Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KOs) believes that he will successfully defend his light heavyweight world title belt against Chad Dawson on October 15th at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. Dawson (30-1, 17 KOs) does not believe he will. The fight will headline an aptly-titled «Believe it or not» fight card, presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions read more ...

Unbeaten but unheralded Mexican Juan Carlos Salgado (22-0-1, 16 KOs), 130, greatly shocked the boxing world when he scored an unexpected TKO over previously unbeaten WBA super-feather champ Jorge Linares (27-1, 18 KOs), 129.75, a prohibitive favorite, at 1:13 of the opening session to capture the belt on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan read more ...

A few days ago, unbeaten WBA super featherweight champion Jorge Linares told the overseas press that he planned to make a defense of his title on October 10 in Japan, and then he planned to target the other champions at the weight. He wants to unify the titles and the first opponent on his hitlist is WBC champion Humberto Soto read more ...

Venezuelan Jorge "Niño de Oro" Linares won the vacant WBA super featherweight world championship by knocking out Panamanian Whyber Garcia at 1:08 of round number five on Friday night at the Atlapa Convention Center in Panama City. Jorge imposed his will and pressure on his opponent landing several punches causing the referee to stop the bout. Linares, who trains and resides in Japan was the heavy favorite to win his second world title in different weight read more ...

WBA super featherweight champion Edwin Valero (23-0, 23 KOs) kept his amazing KO record intact with a third round TKO over Zaid Zavaleta (15-3-3, 11 KOs) on Saturday night at the Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Mexico. Valero dropped Zavaleta at the end of round one, but the bell rang before he was able to follow up. Zavaleta barely survived Valero's assault in round two, but referee Luis Pabon stopped the one-sided beatdown read more ...